Universals Of Nature And Environmentalism

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environmental injustice/racism

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disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on poor, marginalized

-often ppl of color

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structural racism/injustice

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system of social structures that produces cumulative, durable inequalities

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Cerrell Report

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(1984) report advising garbage companies that best place to put landfills/dumps in low income, rural areas

-less resistance b/c ppl less educated, less politically active

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environmental justice

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achieving equity and fair sharing of environmental burdens/benefits

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environmental shadows

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dark areas cast by production of of everyday items, often remain hidden from view

--> environmental/human costs

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superfund sites

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uncontrolled/abandoned place where hazardous waste located

--> affects local ecosystems and ppl

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"Silicon curtain" (Pellow & Park)

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sleek out shell of tech industry

*image created for mass consumption by PR firms, media

contributes to CULTURE OF SECRECY

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what silicon curtain hides

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ecological devastation
preventable illness
human suffering (pressure on contractors to keep costs way down, competition, slim profit margins for suppliers)

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politics of nature

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what's at stake (what stands to be gained/lost, by whom) in how we define nature

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social construction of nature

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notion that our definition of nature= product of human choices, beliefs, actions

--> can't be understood outside sets of social categories/relationships/histories

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socially constructed

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something= product of human choices, beliefs, actions

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epistemes

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way of thinking about the world that comes to dominate in particular PERIOD

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relational approach to nature

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approaching nature as something that comes to be known relationally, through interactions btwn humans & non-humans (they also have agency, push back)

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Ward v. Race Horse

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court case that nullified Fort Bridger Treaty (which said that NAs had to go live on reservations but could still hunt on unoccupied US lands)

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human-nonhuman relationships

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shape how we think about nature

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Meratus Dayak

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ppl who inhabit Meratus mts in Indonesia

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swidden

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portions of the forest cleared by controlled fires for planting (esp rice)

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"gap" (Tsing)

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unfilled space or interval

conceptual spaces/real places where dominant categories don't apply
-erasure, incomprehensibility

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"human modified rainforest" (Tsing)

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what looks to Westerners as wild weediness actually contains rich social history of interaction btwn ppl and plants

NOT CULTIVATED, NOT WILD

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"social-natural landscapes" (Tsing)

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world involves both social & natural processes

need both categories to make sense of nature/the world